Dream Crushed

So, this is a little late as a report, but let’s start with last Friday.  Standard at Something 2 Do, and I decided to play Dragonstorm again, because it still seemed broken.

In round one I was paired against Chris O. playing MGA again.  He won game one since I had basically no gas.  And he won game two with a double Riftsweeper hand on my double Lotus Bloom hand.  A bad start for me.  In round two I played against a person whose name escapes me, but he was playing Rb Goblins.  I won 2-0 because he didn’t see the lethal play in game one, and I went off, and in game two I wrathed him a few times with Hellkite, and Sulfurous Blast.  In the last round before the Top 8, I was playing against Zach playing UGw Blink.  In game one I mulled to four cards, and still won eventually.  In games two and three I drew really awful, and lost.  I didn’t make the Top 8 and it was a disappointing night.

The next event was the annual Something 2 Do Vintage Championship.  I had won this event the past two years, and I was hoping to make it a third.  I decided the morning of the event to play Werebear Party!, a deck I had been tinkering with for awhile.  It’s basically a WUG Fish deck.

In round one, all the people in the S2D Hall of Fame got a bye, so I didn’t have to play.
In round two I was playing against Grayson (a Type 0 player usually) playing Oath of Druids.  Game one he Tinkered a Colossus on turn one, and I died to it.  Game two I made a Dreadnought on turn two, and he died to it.  And game three I Spell Snared his first two Oath of Druids, and then locked him with Life from the Loam and Wasteland.  I eventually won with my Aether Vialed monsters.
In round three I played against Mono Red but I don’t remember the guys name.  He plays a Magus of the Moon on turn one, and I have the only Plains, and a Swords for my turn.  I play a Tarmogoyf with Pyrostatic Pillar in play.  He attacks with an Atog, and plays a second Pillar.  I play a second Goyf, and beat him down.  In game two, I pretty much did the same thing, but it was one Goyf, and a Meddling Mage on Magus of the Moon that won me the game.
I split with my opponent in round four, assuming I would be able to again in the last round and make it into the Top 8.
I  get paired down, so I end up having to play, but we waited to see if we would for most of the round.  I  win game one against Chris O. playing Goblins, and we decide to split.

I make it into the Top 8, paired against Tommy, and in the same bracket as Scott.  Scott wins against Chris O., and Tommy, Scott, and I decide to split and have me play the finals against Jesse, playing Flash.  He wins the roll, and chooses to draw.  He wins on turn one, when I had nothing to stop the combo.  In game two I play again, and play a turn one Pithing Needle on Carrion Feeder, and pass turn.  He plays a land, and Black Lotus.  I can’t make a play on my turn, because it would tap me out, and I didn’t draw the White I needed to leave Swords to Plowshares up, so I pass to him.  He sacrifices Lotus for UUU, plays Chain of Vapor, then removes a Sprit Guide to play Merchant Scroll, then removes another Spirit Guide, and casts Flash, I play Stifle on Hulk’s trigger, his last card is Pact of Negation.  So, I get sacked out, and lose.  It was incredibly disappointing, and the packs I got from my box weren’t so good either.

~ by drachemeister89 on December 19, 2007.